PKK leader Öcalan backs peace efforts after DEM Party visit, praises symbolic disarmament. Turkish parliament forms 51-member ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), said he hopes a commission ...

It is part of a larger process in which the PKK is moving to lay down its arms.In May, the PKK said it would lay down its arms and disband, but it is not clear when this process will begin and how ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has announced the end of the group’s armed ...

PKK disbands after decades of guerrilla warfare, following calls for peace and democratic process by founder Abdullah Ocalan.

ANKARA, Turkey — The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place ...

Show more Show less Abdullah Ocalan, pictured on the flag, founded the PKK in the late 1970s with the Kurdish militant group taking up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 Most of the PKK's ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a hopeful shift as the PKK begins disarmament, signaling an end to decades of unrest. The decision follows urging by imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan.

FILE - Youngsters hold a photograph of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the militant Kurdish group, or PKK, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Feb. 27, 2025.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fighters with the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began laying down their weapons on Friday in a symbolic ceremony marking a first step toward a promised disarmament.

Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, appeared in a rare online video on ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), appeared in a rare online video on Wednesday to say the group's armed struggle against Turkey has ended, and he called ...